Sochi win hailed as sign of Russia’s revival
July 5, 2007
(Updates with U.S. comment in paragraphs 5-7)
Baseball’s Olympic reinstatement at heart of IBAF presidential vote
February 28, 2007
Harvey Schiller and Reynaldo Gonzalez are making the same campaign promise: They’ll work to get baseball back in the Olympics. The former Turner Sports head and the Cuban hope to be elected president of the International Baseball Federation, which votes Friday. Aldo Notari of Italy, who held the job for 13 years, died last July.
US Olympic medalist Dawson reunites with biological father
February 27, 2007
U.S. Olympic skier Toby Dawson embraced his tearful father Wednesday as they reunited for the first time since the athlete was lost in a South Korean market more than two decades ago, leading to his eventual adoption in the United States. “Don’t worry,” Dawson, 28, told Kim Jae-su as the two met in front of dozens of journalists at a Seoul hotel, the culmination of a yearslong journey made possible…
Olympian Gardner says he’s not invincible
February 26, 2007
Rulon Gardner has a whole new tale of survival to add to his motivational speeches. The Olympic gold medalist was back on a plane, back on the speaker’s circuit and back on a wrestling mat just days after a plane crash plunged him into a frigid lake near the Arizona-Utah border. Adding the encounter to his growing list of near-miracles, Gardner said Tuesday that his harrowing weekend “is an…
Olympian Gardner survives small plane crash
February 26, 2007
Olympic wrestling champion Rulon Gardner lost a toe to frostbite after being stranded in the wilderness, impaled himself with an arrow and was involved in a serious motorcycle accident. In his latest escape from death, he survived a plane crash over the weekend into the aptly named Good Hope Bay on the Utah-Arizona border.
Bergqvist pulls out of European indoor championships
February 26, 2007
Sweden’s Kajsa Bergqvist has
pulled out of next weekend’s European indoor championships to
concentrate on defending her high jump world title in Osaka
later this year.
US Olympic skier visits SKorea to trace parents
February 26, 2007
US Olympic skier Toby Dawson will visit South Korea this week in a fresh attempt to trace his biological parents, 26 years after he was adopted by an American couple, trip organisers said Monday.
Afton Schrimpf closes in on U.S. Olympic BMX bid
February 25, 2007
Afton Schrimpf won the women’s Elite Division in the National Bicycle League’s Lake Mead Nationals on Sunday, earning 12 world ranking points for Team USA’s BMX squad. This was the second of six qualifying races to determine three male and two female riders to compete in the inaugural BMX competition in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Olympic great Lewis says track is in trouble
February 24, 2007
Nine-times Olympic champion Carl Lewis
said on Saturday the sport that made him an international
celebrity has hit hard times.
Swimming-Ivanenko pleads innocent of doping charges
February 24, 2007
World swimming champion
Anastasiya Ivanenko has pleaded innocent after failing a doping
test, saying she took a banned substance by mistake.
